GTP Cool Wall: 2000 Ford Focus FR200

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2000 Ford Focus FR200

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Hot hatch Focus? Yes, please.

Hot hatch Focus that apparently took inspiration from all the existing MAX Power magazines (and I don't mean good inspirations) in the world?

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Sorry Ford, there are better ways to create a decent sporty Focus. This isn't one of them. Seriously Uncool.
 
Imari
Oh, I'm sorry. I thought this was the questionable modifications thread. :p
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Come on Imari, you should always read the thread's title before entering it. You should know this by now. :p

Although this car is a pretty questionable modification, no doubt.
 
Uncool, yeah; I agree the bodykit is really tacky, but I don't think it would be super uncool for that. It needs more than a bad bodykit to be seriously uncool in my book.
 
Barely uncool. 300hp in a FF hatchback in 2000 was unheard of and likely hauled some serious ass when it wasn't spinning the wheels. :P
 
If I went back to 2000 this thing would be awesome, it sums up the initial sport compact car craze perfectly. However, 15 years later it's not cool and looks out of place.
 
McLaren
Barely uncool. 300hp in a FF hatchback in 2000 was unheard of and likely hauled some serious ass when it wasn't spinning the wheels. :p
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But only in the imagination.

Seriously uncool because concept car.
 
mustafur
If your blind that is.
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Sight has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. 300Hp in a FF car in 2000 was akin to imagining 1,000Hp supercars in 1990; it's the only reason it didn't get SU like everyone else who forgets what era this car was shown during. :rolleyes:
Famine
But only in the imagination.

Seriously uncool because concept car.
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Eh, a blessing & a curse, then. Saved everyone the horror of the bodykit, but the listed performance would have definitely gotten some attention.
 
Honestly, I do wish the FR200 went into production for the performance it had. Give it better looking body panels and it would have been something. 👍
 
McLaren
Sight has absolutely nothing to do with what I said. 300Hp in a FF car in 2000 was akin to imagining 1,000Hp supercars in 1990; it's the only reason it didn't get SU like everyone else who forgets what era this car was shown during. :rolleyes:

Eh, a blessing & a curse, then. Saved everyone the horror of the bodykit, but the listed performance would have definitely gotten some attention.
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Not really both the Impreza and Lancer which the normal versions of these cars where in direct competition with the Focus had Versions that had the same sort of power with the same size engine but AWD.

both of which are uncool, this can't escape the body kit no matter how much power it has.
 
All those 300 hp's are useless if you're ashamed to drive around in it.
Toss its body kit straight into the sun, please.
Seriously Uncool.
 
"The first compact FF bespoke concept car to have 300 horsepower" is a pretty dubious achievement to talk up as adding to a car's coolness in the first place. "Akin to 1000 horsepower cars in 1990?" Please.

Dodge made a regular production hot hatch with 225 nearly a decade earlier. Volvo sold a car with 250hp for several years. BTCC cars weren't as highly modified as this Focus was and they hovered around 300 HP throughout the 1990s. There were FWD JGTC cars in the late 90s. There was nothing stopping, say, Mitsubishi from taking the FWD turbo Eclipse that you could actually buy and simply changing the engine to Lancer Evolution WRC specs and showing that off as a pie in the sky one-off 6 years before Ford did. The only reason other manufacturers didn't do what Ford did was because if you came up with an AWD system pulled from some other car you happened to sell you could at least pretend to say you might build it, compared to a one off front suspension that widened the front track so much you needed a wide body kit.
 
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